You may have noticed that native English speakers shorten words when they talk quickly. I know that “somuvyu” (some of you) have a hard time hearing and bridging the preposition of when listening or speaking in English. After watching this lesson, “oloyu” (all of you) will have a much easier time understanding this dropped sound. This video will also help you improve your pronunciation and sound more like a native English speaker!

Hello Adam,my dear teacher! The lesson was very Beautiful and useful, as other lessons.
I Think the problem is that a native speaker drops all the time and this make it more difficult to understand them.
I wish every native speaker had spoken as the way you speak.

Thursday, July 20th 2017

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I wish the same Mehdi but you know teacher is also a native speaker and he speaks in the same way as all other natives do.The reason why he speaks so articulately here is that he knows that almost all the students here on this forum are non-natives and also learners of English language there for he speaks slowly and clearly to make every word of him understandable,for which we should all be thankful to him. He is really working hard for his students. Hats off to him.

I have some difficulties with transitions th-s, like “Smith says” and s-th, like “queezes through”. I have to make an interval between the words. Would you tell me, please, what should I do to pronounce it more smoothly.

Thursday, July 20th 2017

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Hi Roman,

In most cases you can drop the ending of the first word (Smi sez). In context the listener will understand. If you want to use the pause to break the two words up, that’s fine too. You can also practice making the pause shorter and shorter until it’s barely noticeable.

Hi Adam. Can you make a lesson on how to know where to pronouce the h in words and where not. For example herbal and graham the h doesn’t sound but in Abraham it does. This really confuses me I would love to know that. Thank you I appreciate your help.

Thursday, July 20th 2017

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Hmmm… good question Lori. To tell you the truth, there is no “rule” for this. you just need to remember which words stress the ‘h’ and which don’t.
Here are some more common ones:hour honour honest heir exhausted vehicle ghost

Thanks, Adam. It’s so useful for me. I live in Toronto, most time I don’t understand the people when I make small talk with them. somavem speak more different accent, so i have misunderstanding alotatime
In this topic, i tried to use some words with “of”. But I’m not sure that I did it correctly.Adam, Could you check it, please? Thanks

These sounds were a problematic question when I started to listen to the English conversations because they were strange and weird sounds. The question was the continuous sessions of listenings to find the differences between one sound and another different sound in the same word, it was pronounced of different manners or accents. It was the main problem when I mixed the grammar with the listening and conversation, to identify the form of pronunciation in English. Thanks a lot, teacher Adam, a good lesson to remember this sounds.

Hi Adam. Under the last video I promised to translate jokes from old magazines. So here are couple of them. Police topic again:
1 In every person, even in the worst one, you can find something good. For that you must search him.(From the instruction(briefing) of police officers)
2 Police officer Petrov was arrested for trying to rape comrade Sedorova. Comrade Sedorova was arrested for resisting to police officer.

And one more:
3 Yesterday by police officers Petrov and Ivanov was arrested a group of robbers. In the chasing after criminals officers made 4 warning shots into the air but the robbers didn’t give up. Then officer Petrov came up with idea and made a warning shot into the officer Ivanov. The criminals preferred to surrender.

Thank you for attention.(and of course I’ll be glad to hear my mistakes)

Thanks Adam. I’ve not really heard the expresson “came up with idea of” anywhere on TV. So it was a risk to me using it here. Maybe you will show me more appropriate variant?(Officer Ivanov not only “came up with the idea”, he invented(in his brain) a subtle(crooked) thing(idea)to make that shot)

Wednesday, August 9th 2017

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Should I use passive in this situation even if this is a newspaper pablication?

Generally speaking, use the passive when you want to hide the subject, or if the subject is not important enough to mention. Otherwise, the active is usually a better choice. Newspaper style is mostly for newspapers.

Thanks for that lesson, but I have a question, a thing that really confuses me. How do I know which sound pronoune, I mean, how can I know when the letter I will have the i sound, or the a sound, like in the word “diner” the I has a different sound from “dinner”, or like website, but opossite, thanks again.

Friday, July 28th 2017

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That’s part of the learning process, Malbatan. You need to look up new words in the dictionary and learn their pronunciation; also watch movies and TV shows to hear different words.

Thenk you for lesson Adam. Can you make a lesson on modal verbs in different times, this is a very interesting and not easy topic for many who learn English, especially verbs- must,may,might. This is very tricky topic for many people, Thenk you.

Hello teacher please tell me how a time difference is defined in English like when there is 2:00 pm in Canada there is 11:00 pm here in my country means there is almost 9 hours difference my question is, how I will tell someone that time in Canada is different than ours.Are the following sentences correct?
1:The time in our country is 9 hours ahead from/than Canada. or
2:our country’s time is 9 hours ahead from/than Canada.
3:The time in Canada is 9 hours behind from/than ours/us. or
4:Canada’s time is 9 hours behind from/than ours/us.Thanks

Sunday, July 30th 2017

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Hi Eichi,

Toronto is 9.5 behind Mumbai. (Keep in mind that Canada is huge and has 5 time zones)

You are 9 hours ahead of us.
You are 9 hours behind us.
There’s a 9 hour time difference between us.
Your clock is 9 hours ahead of ours.
etc.

Thanks Adam! I’ve been looking for ages of an English Tutorial with sense and you nailed it! Love all your videos and the way you explain every word of the lesson. And the bloopers. Hehe. Thanks again and will learn more stuff from here. God bless!

Hi Adam, thank for your video, that’s so good.
But has you any advice to pratice?

Thursday, August 24th 2017

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Hi Dinhhanh,

The best thing to do is find someone near you or online to speak with. You can find people here in this forum, or in your local community. Otherwise you can also record yourself copying the speech of others on YouTube or TV shows.

Listening to some native English speakers isn’t an easy job, mainly when they use too many contractions and change the pronunciation of words all the time. Foreigners learn in English courses the standard of pronunciation and how to create beautiful sentences grammarly correct, but in real life things are rather different… It makes us crazy!!

Fortunately, Engvid exists to help us in this field, giving us tools to overcome this challenge. Many thanks, Adam!

hey, Adam, your English lessons were very helpful lately make more vids:). there’s something I don’t understand about this video how do you pronounce of like ov I just don’t get it, or maybe I don’t understand native speakers very well/I don’t know.thanks anyway I subbed to ur channel and liked it. bye have a productive day:)

this lesson was interesting, the pronunciation of these expression is complex when you don’t know that people dropped some letters in the words, however practice is necessary, listening at least. Thanks a lot Adams, useful lesson

teacher, can you tell me how to pronounce “if you ” when a native speaker speak ?
In the last sentence in your video , ” if you like ,please subscribe to my channel on Youtube”
I heard it many time but I still heard ” I feel like this lesson ….”
thank you

Hi Adam
Let me first thank you for all the lessons about ilets writing. I earned band 6 last month.
Now I need to score band 7 in writing next week. I think i m weak in generating ideas and grammar. I will really appreciate it if you could guide me.

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